<div dir="ltr">By <a href="https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleVII/Chapter42/Section2">statute</a>, the year the stone is located is supposed to be painted on, though I'd be suspicious of any dates more frequent than every five years. And for anything more recent than the 1990s, I'd want to cross reference dates found with minutes of the town meeting confirming that there was a perambulation that year. Some towns do still perambulate their bounds, but not many. <div><br>"The boundary markers of every town shall be located, the marks thereon renewed, and the year located marked upon the face thereof... The marking shall be made with a paint or other suitable marking material."</div><div><br></div><div>Hope you all enjoy the show, and I'm glad I found a community that can nerd out on town lines as much as I do.</div><div><br></div><div>Jake</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Jim Snyder-Grant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.snyder.grant@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.snyder.grant@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>All the Acton corner stones I've seen have had some years painted on. (I used to think it was high school graffiti). Fun idea to mark them in osm. Shall we include the years?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Jim Snyder-Grant <br>18 Half Moon Hill <br>H: <a href="tel:(978)%20266-9409" value="+19782669409" target="_blank">978 266-9409</a> <br>C: <a href="tel:(508)%20572-2985" value="+15085722985" target="_blank">508 572-2985</a> </div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 5, 2017 6:29 AM, "Alan & Ruth Bragg" <<a href="mailto:alan.ruth.bragg@gmail.com" target="_blank">alan.ruth.bragg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_8713791312898476659quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">One of the <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/QN5jRUJ3bgtgoQEt7" target="_blank">Bedford/Concord markers</a> bears painted survey dates of 55 and 70.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">I added this <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4783742794#map=16/42.4807/-71.3180" target="_blank">stone</a> to "Open Street Map" with tags historic=boundary_stone, inscription="B C", source=survey and description=Granite Post</div><div class="gmail_default">Alan Bragg</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_8713791312898476659m_-2398423534082975103gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Alan</font></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="m_8713791312898476659elided-text">On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Bill Ricker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="m_8713791312898476659elided-text"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Local history podcast/blog HUBhistory has the statutory Perambulating the Bounds (and requirement for the "Selectmen" to do so [sexist much?]) and town Boundary markers as the long topic in current episode.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="http://HUBhistory.com/044" target="_blank">http://HUBhistory.com/044</a> cc: <a href="mailto:podcast@hubhistory.com" target="_blank">podcast@hubhistory.com</a><br><br>My comments include "dress for ticks if perambulating ..."<br> <a href="https://twitter.com/HUBhistory/status/904805156499357696" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/HUBhistory<wbr>/status/904805156499357696</a><br><br clear="all"></div><div>[My previous comments on this topic are that living in the City of Boston, I'm probably never going to be appointed a delegate/substitute; the City and MassDOT have employees for the Boston boundary now. Those of you in Towns with amateur politicians have a better chance at this. OTOH Boston's bounds are big enough to take more than a day anyway.]<span class="m_8713791312898476659m_-2398423534082975103HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="m_8713791312898476659m_-2398423534082975103HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br><div class="m_8713791312898476659m_-2398423534082975103m_7352155745044819436gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Bill Ricker<br><a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1<wbr>vux</a> <br></div></div></div>
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